Described as “a poetry collection for lovers and explorers,” Tattoos, Tacos, and Time offers an unfiltered portrait of love in all its forms — passionate, painful, tender, sensual, and transformative. Through sapphic-centered poetry and deeply honest reflections, Leigh traces a journey of self-discovery and emotional survival.

The collection is organized into thematic sections that unexpectedly revealed a unifying emotional thread despite many of the poems being written years apart. Leigh describes the experience of assembling the collection as both surprising and affirming.

"A celebration of intimacy and an exploration of how we are transformed by the act of loving, Angela Leigh’s poems in Tattoos, Tacos, and Time are an enactment of love. Her poems reveal how we experience love with our bodies, skin against skin, and how love transcends bodies and reaches beyond the soul. Love is both action and feeling, presence and absence; it is always a reaching toward the lover, which includes the self. She speaks of her love to mountains, stars, and wind, and they answer back in their own infinitude. Secreted inside poems to lovers are love poems to poetry. Writing, on paper with pen (“when dreams don’t come true/it’s necessary to write them down”) or finger to flesh (“just give me your skin/and I’ll record everything there”), is necessary. She leaves us with an unapologetic challenge: to hunger for love, for poetry herself. - Narya Rose Deckard (she/her), MFA, author of Wolfcraft.

"Angela's collection of poetry makes love into a character that lives in every poem. An entity that you can taste, see, smell, feel and hear in every stanza. Love is serious, silly, messy, quiet and loud sometimes all at once. Each poem offers a little piece of that intimacy to the reader, a promise that this is what love should be." - Maeve Fox (she/her), author of Letting Go of Me

"I know Angela Leigh as a fellow bookseller and community activist, someone who believes deeply in using her voice - and amplifying others' - to build a better world. I was so glad to read her beautiful collection, Tattoos, Tacos, and Time, in which she languidly articulates hopes and desires for true connection. What a lovely breath of fresh air in the complicated year of 2026!" - Alissa Redmond (she/her), Owner and Bookseller, South Main Book Co., Salisbury, NC

"Angela has captured with her words so many tender, often-fleeting, moments and has given us the opportunity to sit with and savor them. Tattoos, Tacos and Time is a crystalized celebration of queer romance; a must-read collection for anyone who loves and has loved." - Kaitlyn McNeilly (she/her); Owner and Bookseller, Box Turtle Books, Shelby NC